Taron Egerton Quotes

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking 'Great - I've got one million pounds in the bank'. I wake up happy because I am a successful part of a successful team. It's that success that brings all the media coverage, the first-night parties, the endorsements. I will never lose sight of that. It has come very quickly - sooner than even I expected. But it's great to know that if I continue in the same vein, then I can do exactly what I want with the rest of my life. I will be financially secure.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.

When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.

I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

I've earned a lot of money, seen everything, and have a wonderful family. What else can I do?

Like every one, I too enjoy commercial success but for me it is certainly not the end of world.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

I've had moments in my career when I've made more money and had more success than at other times, but I've realized being happy has very little to do with any of that.

I'm not driven by money anymore.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.